{"id":887,"date":"2004-04-22T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2004-04-22T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T13:43:23","slug":"nerdy-help-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=887","title":{"rendered":"nerdy help request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>do any readers understand javascript? I have an irritating problem with the bookmarklet for <a href=\"http:\/\/ww.furl.net\">Furl<\/a>, which looks like a pretty useful service: it does two things that Opera&#8217;s notes don&#8217;t do &#8212; makes whole saved pages searchable, and makes them publicly accessible, so you can see what other people have bookmarked, if they choose. But  (people with lives, move on. There&#8217;s nothing to see)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI run Opera set to open new links aurtomatically in new tabs. This is invaluable when dong research, when I want all the trail open in tabs across the top of the screen. And when I do this, the furl bookmarklet doesn&#8217;t work properly because it opens a blank tab before trying to read the title and text from it. I look at the code and I don&#8217;t understand why. Prettied up, it looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre>\njavascript:\nd=document;\nt=d.selection?(d.selection.type!='None'?d.selection.createRange().text:''):(d.getSelection?d.getSelection():'');\nvoid(furlit=window.open('http:\/\/www.furl.net\/storeIt.jsp?\nt='+escape(d.title)+'&amp;u='+escape(d.location.href)+'&amp;c='+escape(t),'furlit','scrollbars=no,width=475,height=575,left=75,top=20,status=no,resizable=yes'));\nfurlit.focus();\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to persuade it that the stuff represented by d.section and d.title should be dumped into the furlit window. How?<\/p>\n\n<p>Not that this works perfectly whell when Opera resuses the old windows. But then my finger memory breaks for everything else.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>do any readers understand javascript? I have an irritating problem with the bookmarklet for Furl, which looks like a pretty useful service: it does two things that Opera&#8217;s notes don&#8217;t do &#8212; makes whole saved pages searchable, and makes them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}